An Economic History of the First German Unification (eBook, PDF)

State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective
Redaktion: Pfister, Ulrich; Wolf, Nikolaus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The central question of this book is whether and how such state formation did in fact contribute to economic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000850260
• Artikelnr.: 67444105

Autorenporträt

Ulrich Pfister obtained his PhD from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, in 1984. Since 1996, he is Professor of Social and Economic History at the University of Münster, Germany. His research covers agricultural history, proto-industrialization, demographic history, and historical national accounts. Nikolaus Wolf obtained his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2003. After positions at the London School of Economics, Free University Berlin, and the University of Warwick, in 2010 he became Professor of Economics and Economic History at Humboldt University. He works on the economic history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on economic geography, trade, borders, and identity.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
Ulrich Pfister, Jan-Otmar Hesse, Mark Spoerer, and Nikolaus Wolf
Part I: Nation formation and the evolution of economic policy
2 National identity, economic integration, and the rise of Prussia
Felix Kersting and Nikolaus Wolf
3 Intergovernmental economic cooperation and institutional integration
before the founding of the German Empire
Alfred Reckendrees
4 Politics, administration and market governance in a federalist
environment: The German Empire in the 1870s and 1880s
Gerold Ambrosius
Part II: The formation of the nation-state as a structural and
institutional turning point
5 Germany's transition from a post-Malthusian to a modern growth regime,
1860s to 1880s
Ulrich Pfister
6 Fiscal regime, nation-building, and state capacity: Interactions among
public finances, national unification, and economic development
Mark Spoerer
7 Nation-state formation and market integration: Postal service, telegraph
system, and railways
Sebastian Till Braun and Jan-Otmar Hesse
8 The changing capacity for self-description: The creation of a national
statistical service
Michael C. Schneider
9 The gold standard and the Reichsbank: The transformation of the monetary
regime
Matthias Morys
10 Patent law and technical progress
Alexander Donges and Jochen Streb
Part III: Economic development and economic institutions in early Imperial
Germany
11 Stock exchanges, banks and the panic of 1873
Carsten Burhop and Felix Selgert
12 How organised was capitalism in the Empire? Lobby associations, cartels
and interlocking directorates
Eva-Maria Roelevink and Dieter Ziegler
13 Social insurance and its consequences for workers' living conditions
Tobias A. Jopp and Jochen Streb
14 Inequality and its drivers in Germany, 1840-1914
Thilo N. H. Albers and Charlotte Bartels
15 Education systems and human capital accumulation
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, and Erik Hornung
Part IV: State and economic development in a European perspective
16 Globalization and foreign trade
Wolf-Fabian Hungerland and Markus Lampe
17 Political change and the origins of protectionism: a French-German
comparison (1860s to 1890s)
Jean-Pierre Dormois
18 The economics of the Italian Unification
Giovanni Federico
19 After exit: the Habsburg economy since 1870
Max-Stephan Schulze
20 British relative economic decline in the aftermath of German unification
Nicholas Crafts
Index